America needs Barack Obama to lead us into a new era

The Union Leader ^ | December 5, 2005 | Wayne King

[Past Your Eyes]

This is where Barack Obama is head and shoulders above any of the other potential candidates on either side. This is where he is in a league all his own.

Listen to him speak and you feel the power of his intellect, but just as strongly you feel the power of his heart. This is a leader who will be able and inclined to reach out to the powerful and the disenfranchised. His guileless style and his heart have not yet been corrupted by the cesspool of Washington politics. That's why we need him now.

[dfwgator]

They are the "Chauncey Gardeners" of politics.

[Wormwood]

A muslim in the white house? You must be kidding.

Your argument would have a little more merit if Obama were a Muslim.

[johnny7]

Sounds like he's queer for him...

[BenLurkin]

"The times call for a leader who can call on all Americans to focus on what unites us . . . "

What does this writer think 'unites us'?

The love of liberty?

A respect for the language of the Constitution and loyalty to the intent of the founders?

A desire for less government across the board?

[beansox]

LOL~ that was funny.

[Miss Marple]

I am just grateful this article wasn't read on Fox. My husband is already throwing stuff at the TV when the latest Obama-mania event happens. This article would send him to the moon!

[MEG33]

All I can do is laugh out loud!

[Wormwood]

Did someone say Frakin' Adama?

[dynachrome]

Lots'o people calling for the barf alert.

[Gritty]

[John Valentine]

Barf? I thought it was the sarcasm tag that was missing. This IS a joke, right?

[zbigreddogz]

Listen to him speak and you feel the power of his intellect

Yah, his suggestion that we get Iran and Syria to 'fix' Iraq for us is freaking brilliant /sarcasm.

I'm not saying he's stupid, he's clearly not, but this is an incredibly stupid statement.

[MikeA]

To the writer of this puff piece: Why don't you and Obama get a room and spare the rest of us your sexual fumblings and gropings with him via the written word.

[FReepapalooza]

Good one!

[proudpapa]

Not really. She'll use him as her Veep candidate to get elected.

[Nevadan]

re: He has about as much experience as Condi Rice did before she was appointed to Sec of State.

Re: Rice, the following are her credentials as detailed on the White House website (http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/ricebio.html). I don't know what Obama's credentials consist of, but I haven't heard anything yet that compares with the experience and knowledge Rice had before taking the job of Secretary of State:

"Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001.

In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University 's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.

As professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.

At Stanford, she was a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control from 1981-1986 (currently the Center for International Security And Cooperation), a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions.

From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military.

She was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula . In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco.

Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the National Defense University in 2002, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004. She resides in Washington, D.C."

July 2004

[BlueNgold]

feel .. feel .. feel ...
emotions don't win wars
emotions don't solve problems
emotions don't lead

emotions dull your sensitivities to danger and mask what your intellect is telling you

[pipecorp]

Well put!

[catpuppy]

Go to the head of the class. You nailed it. HRC and BO will be the Dem ticket.

[DownInFlames]

The last time we had a silver spoon empty suit in the White House was JFK and look what happened. We leaned the phrase "Duck, Drop, and Kiss Your A$$ Goodbye" along with Bay of Pigs and oh yea - VIETNAM.